Hmmm. Christina Gao is skating in Graz the week before and then is listed for Japan. Back to back competitions. Significant travel distance and not much time for recovery. Wonder if there is a method to this madness, or if her camp requested this scheduling. As of today, USFS website does not have assignments for this competition posted, but I guess they can switch to a substitute by some pre-determined deadline date.

Anybody know what is the deadline for a country wishing to substitute an entrant for a specific competition?

Hmmm. Christina Gao is skating in Graz the week before and then is listed for Japan. Back to back competitions. Significant travel distance and not much time for recovery. Wonder if there is a method to this madness, or if her camp requested this scheduling. As of today, USFS website does not have assignments for this competition posted, but I guess they can switch to a substitute by some pre-determined deadline date.

In the past, the U.S. JGP skaters have been told that the entries published on the ISU site after the first several JGP events should be considered as 'placeholder names' and that their official assignments will be confirmed directly to them by USFS. For Japan, the 'placeholders' were Gao, Dornbush, Zahradnicek, Lichtman/Copely & Olson/Cowan. USFS waited for the results from Courchevel, FRA before submitting their final entries for JPN. You can expect to see more 'placeholder' names when the preliminary entries are published for GBR (#5), GER (#6), and CZE (#7).

Both the ISU site and USFS' International Assignments page now list the official Team USA entries as Baga (her 1st JGP assignment this season), Angela Wang (her 1st-ever JGP), Jason Brown (silver in FRA), Max Aaron (bronze in FRA), Cannuscio/McManus (silver in FRA), and Yang/Baker (their 1st-ever JGP).